Two about film’s early years — French director Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist” and Martin Scorsese’s family adventure “Hugo” — have the most nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards (airing Friday, Jan. 12 on VH1. 6 p.m. MST). Each has 11, including ones for Best Picture and Best Director.

One of the more interesting wrinkles in this year’s nominees is the absence (rightly so) of a Pixar feature in the Best Animated Feature field.

“So Who makes up this august body?” you may wonder, as you attempt to vet all the lists coming your way. Here’s an introduction from their website:

“The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing over 250 television, ratio and online critics.” Ratio? Clearly, they’re not print journalists. Not that we don’t make plenty of typos, too.

Nevertheless…And the nominees (at least some of them) are:

BEST PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Lisa Kennedy has been The Denver Post film critic for quite a spell. The job returned her to the town she grew up in after 20 years of living elsewhere: mostly in New York City. During the time she's been back, she was voted into the National Society of Film Critics, a first for a Colorado reviewer. When she began Diary of a Mad Moviegoer, she wasn't just cribbing from Tyler Perry. In fact, she seldom goes all Madea on movies, thinking the gig is more like a conversation than a competition about who's right about which flick.